I don't even know if the regular readers are hams.
Always wondered about that. Nothing comes back with qr
zed, so I guess not.
I mean, reading it for so many years, a few might have
got the bug.
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> Walt wrote:
>    >The QST that we get now is relatively on time.
> Only a month or so
>    >late. They come on cassette and are usually on
> eight sides.
> <snip>
>    >remember getting them, sometimes as much as a
> year late and they
>    >were on cassette.  That was in the late
> seventies and the president
>    >of ARRL, Vic Clark narrated it.  He was from the
> Carolinas and he
>    >told a story about himself and a neighbor with a
> similar call.  His
>    >call was K4 KFC and his neighbor was K4KFK.  Vic
> would sit there
>    >and listen to his neighbor call CQDX etc. and
> when he have his call,
>    >Vic would just do a single dot.  About half of
> the time, the
>    >station came back to Vic.  His neighbor, would
> just say he has done
>    >it again.
> IIRC VIc's call was w4kfc, but I remember hearing
> that sotry as well.
>
> Btw I often griped about the lateness of those QST
> issues, but VIc
> CLark got good at describing wiring diagrams even.
> He'd learned from
> Bob Gunderson obviously.
>
> WOuld that we had readers for it now with the
> ability to read the more
> technical material and sound comfortable with it.
>
> 73 de nf5b
>
>
> Richard Webb
>
> Electric Spider Productions
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
> little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>
> --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
> Historical review of Pennsylvania
>
>
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